The Sun. — London, England, 1818-03-04 00:00:00

T iE COLONIES. NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK• We beg ',cave to call the attention of otir Com mercild `tea(let•s to the following Bill, which has not been printed, b.,t was read X- first time on it on.dav ni4ht, and a second time last night. We hive great doubts of ics propriety and expediency, nor can we learn On whose aPplication it has been broo4ht forward, evidently not at the request of any of the Mercantilelloues-in the City, con nected with British North America—as they are, we are itaortned, mild) alarmed at it. It will have a ruinous effect on the Shipping belonging to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, without ing in any degree the Shipping of , the Mother Country—as the heavy duties imposed on their entering the United States, will preclude their employment in any intercourse between these two Provinces aid that Country. We are afraid this is a further sacrifice to propitiate the Government of America ; and we are confirmed in that appre sbeusion from the last chose of the Bill which re lates to tie Export (It GYPSUM—WhiCb is con trary to the provkions of two existing Acts of the oviucial Legiblatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, petssed only in 1816, and confirmed.by the Crown, and are in force until 1821. It this Measure is adopted, we Shall consider it as prelude to a further relaxation of the Colonial System, and to the admission of. FOREIGN Ship piog into the other Colonies of His MAjcsty, iu A , oerica and the West Indies. We lament sincerely the recurrence of these in roads on the Old Policy of the Country ; and we anticipated (from the Circulars of Lord BATnuRST, since the Peace, to the Governors of Colonies, that Vol ei4ti Vessels should pot be admitted into thttn), that it was the intention of Government to enforce strictly the Navigation and Colonial System, in order to secure constant employment to British Shipping. We find, on enquiry, that the power given by the Acts referred to in the BM were rarely exer cised in Nova Scotia and Nesv Brunswick ; and we are satisfied tl o the same are nut now necessary. We should like to know if the Act of Congress, passed last yeLar, to Prohibit the I mport of Gyp sum into th e United States from thet,e Provinces, has been repealed ? If it has not, our fears will prove we ll rounded, and we shall not be surprised to hem., by the next packets, that the American itizens bay:: been again allowed to Fist; on the :iiiores, and within the harbours and creeks of our Colonies; and that the American Frigate which is gone to take po,session of the Columbia River, and the Norill-West Coast of America, is per mitted to do so with the Privity and Knowledge of His Majesty's Ministers. All the provisions of the following Bill are tip: plicable only to a trading intercourse with the United States ; and, with the exception of the_ feulaoicles of Provisions, cannot, in any manner, be of use to the inhabitants of the King's Colo- especially in time of peace. A BILL to allow the Impiftation into Parts specially ap pointed by his Majesty within the t'rut•ince of NOVA SCOTIA and NEW BRUNSWICK of the Artielei therein enumerated, and the Re-Exportation. thereof from such Ports. Where .s, by an Act passed in the 47th year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for permitting until the ebti o i day of March, 1809, and from thence to the'etid of the then next Session of Parliament, the importation of certain enumerated Articles into the British Colonies on the Continent of North America, from the United States of America, and the ex pottation of other enumerated Articles from the same Colo nies to the said States," which said Act was continued and extended by an Act passed in the 49th year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, " An Act to authorize his Majesty to per mit until the 25th day of March, 1812, any Goods and Com modities, to be imp rted into and exported front Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in any ship or Vessel whatsoever," which last mentioned Act was continued by an Act passed in the. 5-2 d year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, ".An Act to con thine several haws relating to permitting the importation of Tobacco into Great Britain from any place whatever, and to permitting Goods and Commodities to be imported into, and exported from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in any ship or vessel until the 25th day of March, 1815, and 10 the amending an Act far consolidating and extending the several Laws in force, for allowing the importation of certain Goods and Merchandize into aid front certain ports in the Nest Indies, until the 25th day of Alarch, 1314," sundry Aiticles sv ere a ll o wed to be imported into, and exported from certain ports in his Majesty's Colonies of Nova Scotia and. New Brunswick, front and to .certain foreign ports, which Acts have now expired :—And whereas great advantage resulted to the said Colonies, from the facilities given to the trade thereof by tho said Acts:—And whereas it is expedient to grant simila facilities at the present time;-=Be it therefore enact ed, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by aqd with the advice and consent of the Lords SpirituAl and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, it- shall and may be lawful any British-built ship or yes+rl, owtied and navigated according to Law, CR' IN ANY snip OH ViiSSEL BELONGING TO tmr: SUBJECTS OF ANY SaeEnv,' els OR STATE Is: A '4I7Y with his Majesty, to import into such ports as shall lie specially appointed for that Fa ros., by his Majesty, within the province of NOVA Seorm, or N E w 3 at; NSW icF, the following articles, viz. scantling planks, stives, heading hoards, shingles, hoops, or squared timber s any sort ; I,ores, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or We received last night the missing Paris • Pa pers of Friday last, and this morning those of Sunday. It is curious, that though the Paris Journals are completely silent, under the head of their domestic news, respecting the attack upon the Duke of IVELLINcroN, yet some of the Papers of Friday give the following article, dated from Frankfort, the 21st ult. and quoted from the Journal of that City : " Private Letters from Paris state,.that two in dividuals had been 'arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the attenyt upon the lite of the Duke of Wri.LINGToN. Both were known to have worn mustachios, but at the time of their arrest they tvere with out them. One of them was disguised as a mendicant, but had about him 1500 francs in specie. The pistol was found in the Rue de la Madeleine ; it ha 1 two barrels, one of which remained charged." The following are Extracts from the Pap ers of Sunday : live stovk of any sort; bread, biscuit, flour, peas, beans, po- tatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, or grain of any sort; pitch,, tar, turpentine, fruits, and seeds : Provided always, and be it further enacted, That none of the aforesaid articles shall be imported into the said ports, so to be specially appointed, in foreign vessels, unless the said articles shall he of the growth, produce, or ntannfacinre of the country to which the tessels importing the same shall belonk.—And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to re-export any of the said articles to any of his Majesty's possessions in any British built ship or vessel, owned and navigated according to law.— And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful, in any British ship or vessel, or in any ship or ress4 belonging to the subjects of any Sovereign or State in amity with his Majesty, TO ExPour from the said port, so to be appointed for that purpose, to any country belonging to any Sovereign or State in amity with his Majesty, ANY OrieSUM, grindstones, or other produce or manufacture of the said provinces, and also any produce or manufacture of the United King dom, or of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations ii) the West Indies, or any goods whatever which shall have been legally imported into the said provinces: any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.—And be it further enacted, That it shall and may 1 , ,e lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to make such rules and regula tions for the importation and exportation of goods and Com modities as aforesaid) at the said ports, with such penalties and forfeitures fur the breach thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to his Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid.— And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in fume during the space of 'years from and after the passing of the same, and until 6 weeks after the commence ment of the then next Session of Parliament. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. The Seventh : Report of the Select Committee, iippointed by the !louse of Commons during the last Session to inquire into the state of the In come and Expenditure of the Country, has been priated. This Report refers exclusively to the extent of the Army Estimates for the Service - of the pre sent Year, a tda compares them with the Estimates for the Year preceding. In this comparison there appears a reduction in the present year.of about two thousand men, which has taken place in the Irish Establishnsent. This causes a diminution of expellee to the amount of 74,002/. 10s. There is also a diminution the Public Departments of 16.5571. ; in the Royal Military College, of 2.640/. ; in Corps to be reduced, of 812,1611. These, with some further reductions, are in some degret necessarily counterbalanced by an increase expenditure in other items' contained in the Estimates, leaving; eventually. however, in the entire, a diminution of charge for 1818, as com pared with the former year, to the amount of 188,0271. 19s. 3d Among the items wherein the expellee has increased, we find the halt-pay and military allowances exceeding the charge in the former year to the amount of 3,2131. 10s. 11d. This increase in the halt-pay is the natural con sequence of the reduction in the effective strength of the army. The charge for the half-pay and military allowances to British Officers, fur the present year, amounts to 682,-7631. - 15 s. 40d. The Report alludes to a wish expressed during the last Session by the Committee, " That some means might be devised for rendering the foreign pos sessions of the British Empire more efficient to wards defraying the expences of their own tnili tary protection, since their value to the parent S,tate-must be greatly diminished by their continu ing a lasting drain on its resources." TO CORRESPONDEN'T'S. LANFRANC.—it was our iiope to insert the Xllth Letter of our excellent CorrespOndent this day, but it is unavoid ably postponed till to-morrow. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRUitY-LANi.—The Will :- Sir Solomon Cynic, Mr. Powton ; Albina -Mandeville, Mrs. Mardyn. .If - ter which, The Poor Soldier. THEATRE ituyA covENT-GARDI:N.—(4III time), Zama : Mir van, Mr.Braham; Zuma, Mks Stephens. After which, The Russian Fetival. To which was added, The Illustrious Traveller. MAILS. DuE—,3 IVaterford, ; Guernsey and Jersey, - 2 Holland, 2 Gottenburgli, 4 Liamburgii. PRICE 0 STOC L'.S THIS PAY AT r Dank 9871 286 i 3 per Cent. Red...7Bmi 79 3 per Cent. Cons..77i3i 784 i 4 per Cents. 9 8104 5 per Cent. N. Ann-105441i 5 per Cent. 1797 shut , weLve p'concx. I Bank L. Ann ....shut India Bonds .955. 975. pr. Exch. Bills 2d.... 155. 17s. pr. Ditto, 24d...215. 13s. 19s. pr. Cutts. for April,7l;i 78iii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To .moßnow. Morning, 16 minutes after 1. EvittiaK, 4t minutes after 1. - THE SUN. SOLEM 41.31 g DICERE rM.SIISI A tIDEAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1818. " CHAMBER OF PEERS, FEB. 23. " The discussion on the Recruitment Projet was resnmeil. Two new speakers, the Marquis de Lauriston and the Duke de la Rochefoticauld, were heard, one for and the other against the Projet. " The Count Mole, Minister of the. Marine, and the Councillor of State, Count Simeon, de fended the Ptojet. Their speeches were ordered to lye printed. "The DukedeTarente, in the name of the Com mittee of Recruitment, made a report on the dif ferent Petitions referred to that Committee. They were all got rid of with the exception of, one, which was referred to the Ministers of War and Justice. " The discussion on the Projet was adjourned till Monday. "PARIS, MARCH 1.-The Committee of the Deputies upon. the Concordat will assemble on Monday next to resume their labours. The Mini ster for Foreign Affairs,. the Keeper of the Seals, and the Minister of the Interior, will attend the Committee. • " The trial respecting the assassination of M. Fordde3 commences the llth instant, at Albi : 360 witnesses are summoned from Rhodez. `` FIVE PER CENTS. " Saturday 67 f. 43 c. " MADRID, FEB. 17.—An Official Dispatch from the Governor of Vera Cruz, Don Francisco lievia, dated the 10th of November last, confirms the intelligence of the capture of the rebel Minn. " CAssEt., FEB. 17.—1 t is said that negticia lions have been set on foot With. our Contt for the marriage of the Duke of Clarence with the third and youngest Princess daughter of the Land grave Frederic, brother of the Elector of Hesse. " AUGSBURG, FEB. 19.—We have received to day from Vienna the important intelligence, that the journey of the Emperor of Austria into Dal matia is postponed. in consequence of his Majesty having received advises that the Emperor of Russia proposes to proCeed, in the middle of May, from Warsaw to Vtenna, and that the King of Prussia will also arrive in that capital. Several Sovereigns and Princes of Germany are expected at Vienna about the same period. These Sove reigns will remain incognito, and reside at private hotels." The Indemnity Bill was the chief topic of debate last night, in the House of Lords, and it went through a Committee, Many questions were askedi and suggestions were proposed by the Opposition. - The objections rather displayed tba temper than the sagacity of the Proposers, and the suggestions were knot calculated to improve the intended legislative enactment for the protection of those whose only fault was in having pro tected the Country. The plain question, divested of all party sophistry and party zeal, is,whether Mi nisters and Magistrates,who,by timely interference, saved the country from probable insurrection, and possibly from all the horrors of anarchy, should he subjected to prosecutions, instituted by malig nity and revenge. In fact, nothing but the forms• of the Constitution, which we trust will alWays be sacredly observed and maintained, require the proposed Act of Indemnity for signal and essential service to the State. Another question, equally simple, is, whether those persons, who gave such information on oath as led to the fi ustr•ation of seditious and rebellious machinations, should, by the disclosure of their names, be exposed not'only to perpetual annoyance and insult, but most pro bably •to devruCtion, from the artifice, violence,. and vengeance of those whose atrocious purposes. Were defeated. For the rest, we refer to our Report of the Debate. Sir WIL-LIAM •BunnonQns, in the House of Commons, on the Report of the Committee of Supply, moved for a reduction of the Army to the atuonnt of 10,000 men. At this time, too, when France is endeavouring to prepare an Army of 240,000, which, if the• Allied Forces were to be withdrawn, or even diminished, might bring back the whole train of revolutionary' horrors •in that Country, again involve Europe in consternation, and shake the foundation of its whole political Edifice !! ! - We are happy to inform our Readers, that yes terday evening, after a trial of nine hours, the Jury, without hesitation, pronounced a Verdict of Acquittal in favour of EASTAFFS, Keeper of Reading Gaol, on the indictment preferred against him by Lord FOLKESTONE, for refusing to permit him to converse with the State Prisoners, lately 'confined in that Gaol. CITY, ONa o'CLoctc..---Tbis morning the Funds experienced a fluctuation of One per Cent. ; the , Market opened for Consols at. 77'.; it recovered a little at twelve o'clock, and several Brokers be came buyers ; at one, Consols were 784, An other defaulter was declared this morning to a considerable amount. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, MARCH 3.—Arrived, and sailed for the River; the Asia, GREW, from Bombay—sailed the 12th October, and from St. Helena the 10th Jan. MUNSLEY, NEAR CROMER, MARCH 2. , —The :sloop Neptune, PAIN, from Pottsmonth'for Lon don, laden with a steam engine, was found yes terday near Blakeney Harbour, xvitbouts any per.. son on board, and it is feared that all the cievir, have perished. The Blakeney pilots got an an char and cable out, and hove her off, but were afterwards obliged to run her on shore near Cro mer, where she now lies, and it is feared will be d wreck ; the cargo will be saved. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Ataria, :of and, from London to St. Lucie ; sailed from Portsmouth about three weeks ago, during wl►ich time she experienced tremendous weather, with the wind froM S.W. to N.W. with alarming seas; on the 26fh ult. being then in lat.' 48. long. 10.:2' a sea struck the vessel, and carried away her rudder, main-topsail yard, and sail, and otherwise injured her sails and rigging. At the time Of the above accident, a brig and a Spanish schooner hove in sight, to whom the Master made a signal of distress, but neither of them bore op to his assistance. POETSIVOUTU, Alincrt 3.—Arrived the Leeds packet from the .Mediterranean, and is put under quarantine. RAMSGATE, MARCH 3.—Several ships have put in here for shelter, but none with damage or loss, except the New Blessing, ROBERTS; she has lost boom and two anchors and cables. The schooner Antoinette, BILBY, is riding oft the Foreland, and has lost several of her sails, &c. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 4.—We had a few fresh Arrivals this morning, but buyers are still hanging off:in expectation of further supplies a few sales made in Fine Whee and Oats were at Monday's prices, but there is so little doing, that prices in general are nominally the same as'ou Monday. It is supposed by several, who l;ave recently re , turned ft om Paris, that the Report, which Was translated into one of the London. Papers same days back, of Mr: BocnsA's Trial for Contumacy, proceeded from a malevolent source ; and , by others, that there may he some foundation for it, - as they understood, while in Paris, that this Mr, BOCHSA had been led into speculations by some artful men, who left him to bear the brunt of total failure, which not being able to encounter. he came to Englatittlast.year 5 - ant if this Trial lias really taken .place his associates in the Onsoc• cesstul enterprize may haVe taken every advantage . of his absence to criminate him alone. We give this as we heard it, without vouching for the au' thenricity of either suppositions, but we sincerely trust that this distinguished Composer and Per former is not in such a dilemma as represented. We understand that his conduct, since his resi dence in this conutry, has been exemplary, anti that be is now in Scotland, on his way to-Ire-- land, where be has a considerable engagement. Monday evening her MAJESTY bad a select party at her, Palace. Yesterday her MAJESTY, accompanied by Prin" vesses AUGUSTA, ELIZ,ASETH, and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, took an airing by Paddington , the New-road, and Islington. Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCE visited the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-house. Yesterday the Dukes of CLARENCE and Susssx , and the Prince of HESSE HOMBERG, visited I MAJESTY, Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, a" the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. In the evening her MAJESTY had a select party. Most of the reports mentioned in some of the Papers relative to a reported matrimonialalliatice between . one of the Royal Dukes and .a Heiress, we are assured, are not only erroneo 0 5 - tint perfectly ridicnlous. We shall particularly notice this subject in due time. —(Morning Post.) The Hon. GEORGE WA. COVENTRY,. son Of Viscount DEERHURST, who has been seriously ill at the house of his grandmother (Lady BEAD' CHAMP), at Paris, is much .better. Wm. TIERNEY ROBARTS, Esq. is returned to serve in Parliament for the Borough of St. Al' ban's, in the room of JOSEP,U. llALsay, tsq• de' ceased. R. LONG, Esq. of Ashton, M.P. for Wittio has announced his intention to retire from Pe' liament on its dissolution,; in consequence of i ll ' health. Yesterday a Conrt of Aldermen Was beid.;---V 4 Bishop of Llandaff and the Rev. Dr.. Cpsfsf Master of Sydney College, Cambridge, were re' quested to preach the Spital Sermons at Christ' church on. Easter Monday and Tuesday next. --1 Mr. Henry Woodtbrope, jun. was sworn into the office of Deputy Town-clerk. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY AT BILISTAL.P' d It is stated, in the last Number of The• Anti• Jace bin Review andTrueChurchmon's Magazine, that the proceedings of this Institution, at _a meeting hel d l ' lately at-Bristol, when the thanks of it were voted . to the Rev. Dar t ket. WILSON, Minister of an vie consecrated Chapel, in the parish of St. Andrew's' Holborn, for his Answer to the ProtCst of the Achdeacon of Bath, were inserted in The 7 imegf and that Forty Pounda were paid to ,the Editor 0 that Piper for such insertion ! ! The Editor 0 the Review remarks, " No private pure, we should imagine, affords such Pr ce fuse expenditure, and we should regard such a diversion Funds a baud on the Subscribers, did w, not know that fli t majority far prefer the depression of Episcopal Authority home, to the pro r ogation of Christianity any where. On tbi: suhj,ct llama stations FACT to bring forward in our o';% Number I!"